It wasn't until 1936 that Texas Tech fans and students came to be called "Red Raiders." Collier Parrish, sports editor of the Lubbock Morning Avalanche, gave the team its new nickname because of their all-red uniforms and rigorous coast-to-coast schedule. 1936 was also the year of the first unofficial "Red Raider," now called the Masked Rider.
It wasn't until 1936 that Texas Tech fans and students came to be called "Red Raiders." Collier Parrish, sports editor of the Lubbock Morning Avalanche, gave the team its new nickname because of their all-red uniforms and rigorous coast-to-coast schedule.
How far back in time are the PC Police allowed to go?
But didn't Maj Ripley found Camp Worth to expand the removal of indigenous people from their native lands....(just saying...)
berkley, texas just doesn't have the same ring to it
Thought they were going for "Lenningrad"berkley, texas just doesn't have the same ring to it
The indigenous people that descended from the guys that came across the Bering straight land bridge? Yeah, those guys...
SE State University in OK used to be "The Savages" . I think that one is now available....Change it to Redskins
They did have dibs. You gotta respect dibs.But who was here first
Probably came across somebody with a lisp trying to say it.Keller, TX original name was Athol, changed in 1882. Can’t imagine why they would want to change that name.
But who was here first